Ghosts (Hampton, trans.) - Softcover

Ibsen, Henrik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573609829 ISBN 13: 9780573609824

Publisher: Samuel French Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Henrik Ibsen

Translated by Christopher Hampton

Full Length, Drama

Characters: 3 male, 2 female

Interior Set

This riveting family drama is a classic of the modern theatre. Oswald Alving returns for the dedication of the orphanage to his father's memory and has a flirtation with the family maid who, it turns out, is his father's illegitimate daughter. As the long-supressed truths collide, the orphanage is destroyed by fire, the maid deserts the family in disgust when she learns her true parentage, and Mrs. Alving is left alone to care for her hopelessly insane son who has fallen prey to the social disease that killed his father. The role of Mrs. Alving, considered one of the greatest in the modern repertoire, has been played by Liv Ullman, Geraldine Page, Eva Le Galliene, Mrs. Fiske, Alla Nazimova and Eleonora Duse.

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Review:

"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field."--"The New Statesman"

Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field. The New Statesman"

"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field." --The New Statesman

About the Author:

Christopher Hampton was born in the Azores in 1946. He wrote his first play, "When Did You Last See My Mother?, "at the age of eighteen. His many works for the theatre, television and cinema include "The Philanthropist, "translations of Yasmina Reza's "Art, Life x 3, "and "The Unexpected Man", his adaptation of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses "by Laclos, translations from Ibsen and Moliere, " "and the screenplays "Dangerous Liaisons, Carrington, "and "The Secret Agent."

About this edition

• Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0573609829
• ISBN 13: 9780573609824
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96